Art education, examined in this report written by a task force of art educators, focuses upon roles of art educators, problems, purposes, and future potential and directions of quality art education in the middle and junior high schools. Three chapters comprise the book. Art in relation to the individual, community, and culture is discussed and…

In this book a task force of art specialists report on art education as integral to a total school program. Emphasizing the need for art education to play a more dominant role in the education of all students, the three chapters discuss and examine problems and the direction of quality art education in high schools. Chapter one discusses art and…

This study of curricula for English programs from 1958-1968 reviewed both secondary and primary sources, including personal interviews, solicited correspondence, unpublished material, and curriculum guides. Three somewhat conflicting models emerged from the study: (1) the content-centered approach, emphasizing the study of language, literature,…

This collection of instructional objectives and related measuring instruments is the first of Instructional Objectives Exchange collections devoted to affective objectives. It concerns measures of self concepts. The collection is divided into five major sections. The discussion of the collection's organization is followed by a description of the…

An explication of a normative theory of social education is presented in this essay. Purposes for social education are suggested and their implications in terms of curriculum and instruction explored. The importance of this effort lies in a "need to know where we may be going in order to understand where we are." An axiom, normative assumptions,…

Seminars designed as a guide for teachers who meet together regularly while teaching the intermediate grade course Man: A Course of Study are presented in this book. The seminar series provides a framework for the course itself, including opportunities for teachers to explore classroom concepts and materials and offering a structure for examining…

This paper considers the narrow goals characteristic of most accountability programs, discusses methods for transcending these limited goals (linking goals to broad society values), and suggests steps that supervisors can take to implement accountability in an open system. The author argues that students, administrators, and teachers must be…

This guide is written to focus attention on both the cognitive and affective aspects of environmental education. Its format provides four levels of development: primary, intermediate, junior high, and senior high school grades, with the first two subdivided into three categories each. Performance objectives, teaching-learning inquiries, and…

This guide to affective social skill development discusses these points: (1) The targets of our efforts are first of all teachers, then the peer group, and finally individuals, (2) Systematic training of teachers, both in the cognitive and experimental basis of human relationships, is a necessary prerequisite to the implementation and development…

The objectives of minority studies programs are similar to those of general education. Aside from its cultural-transmission function, minority studies has two missions connected with learning: the development of cognitive and affective skills; and maintenance of the essence of ethnic content, even when it is offered in separated autonomous…

Based on the assumption that educators need to be concerned with the quality of relationships between faculty and students, an alternative advising model is proposed that enhances the behavioral requirements of creative learning. The "advising" function is viewed as a teaching-consulting function. (Author/LBH)

Discusses ways of increasing the interest level of graduate students in the historical foundations of education. Suggests that students be trained in historiography, experiential learning, and the philosophy of history. (DB)

An heuristic method for constructing affective tests emphasizes a set of key questions which are used to define an affective construct, decide on a measurement procedure, and develop a framework on which to base items. Affective tests should be based upon prior specifications of constructs, and then manipulated empirically. (Author/MV)

Instructional television is a valuable tool for the teacher, particularly when used to expose students to problems and life situations and to encourage them in value discussions and decision-making in areas that are most nearly parallel to their own social experiences. (JD)

In the future health educators must acknowledge the interrelationship between health and education; understand the changes both are undergoing; and take initiative in managing resources creatively, take an active part in the calculus of change, and accept and adapt to external forces that cannot be changed. (JD)